We love Pokémon, we love Animal Crossing, and we're pretty sure that plenty of you reading this will love them both, too. All going well, then, this should go down a treat.

Andrei Mishanin, a Russian artist who seemingly has a flair for creating cute pieces of joy, has shared their latest creation online depicting a number of female characters from Pokémon Sword and Shield as if they were in the Animal Crossing universe.

We can see the player character, the professor's granddaughter Sonia, the Fighting-type Gym Leader Bea, the Water-type Leader Nessa, rival Marnie, and a Poké Kid dressed as an Eevee.

Ryan can list the first 151 Pokémon all in order off by heart – a feat he calls his ‘party trick’ despite being such an introvert that he’d never be found anywhere near a party. He’d much rather just have a night in with Mario Kart and a pizza, and we can’t say we blame him.

@beazlen1 Pokémon has been abbreviated to PKMN in-game since Red & Blue, although I don’t think I’ve actually seen it in any recent games. That said, other than ‘P’, I guess the only option would just be ‘Poké’?

I'm not necessarily for or against this idea, per say. I more wonder if it's necessary at all, though. There's so much fantastic clothing to pick from in AC, (which will certainly be added to in AC:NH) but it leaves me wondering, and I ask non-rhetorically, do we need dedicated costumes identical to those of which games they're taken from?

Super cute. I've for years said that a PokemonXAnimal Crossing game would be just printing money.

Just imagine an AC game set in the Pokemon world, instead of battling you live AC style with a few Pokemon pets and interacting with your other villagers, farming berries, collecting local bug Pokemon, catching local water Pokemon. Travelling Pokemon trainers would come to town and you could trade them for rarer Pokemon and items.

It could even potentially sync to your mainline game and have all sorts of cross-compatibility fun!

OR Imagine no human characters. What if each box in your PC is an Animal Crossing style village! Pokemon Crossing could be based around that and you could actually play as one of your Pokemon in their village!